CMPO

Describing cellular phenotypes with CMPO

The Cellular Microscopy Phenotype Ontology (CMPO) provides a species-neutral controlled vocabulary for
describing phenotypic qualities relating to the whole cell, cellular components, cellular processes and cell populations.
Terms from CMPO are being used to annotate phenotype descriptions from high-content screening databases and cellular image repositories.
Annotating data with ontologies adds value to the data that can then be exploited computationally to support smarter querying and to
facilitate data integration. Find out more about CMPO and the projects
invoved here. If you are new to ontologies, there is a
short introduction on the subject available
and a blog post by James Malone
on what ontologies are for.

We provide tools to support the automated annotation of free text with CMPO terms.
You can annotate terms using either the EBI's Zooma
tool or the NCBO annotator. You can also embed
CMPO search in your own web applications using the OLS widgets.